{"id":4782,"date":"2020-02-23T12:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2020-02-23T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T17:27:47","slug":"reading-response-mindbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/23\/reading-response-mindbugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response \u2013 Mindbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of the term mind bug before, but I\u2019ve been exposed to these types of illusions before. On the first day of my 7<sup>th<\/sup> grade woodshop class, my teacher spent the whole period showing us illusions and assigning each one a deeper meaning of why we got it wrong in the first place. I hope he reads this someday because the metaphorical reasons he came up with are not true the reasons our minds trick us. It is interesting to me that mindbugs are a product of evolution. Our brain does this because it helps of survive in the world. However, there are times that this automatic evaluation hurts us and there is no way to turn it off.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of false memories is especially frightening. When it comes to remembering things, I think it is safe to say that a person is going to trust their own memory compared to someone else\u2019s most of the time. But this specific mindbug seems to say that this instinct is wrong. In fact, both people are probably remembering wrong. Differing memories are usually pretty harmless. For example, when two people are arguing over who found a song first or which person agreed to take out the trash the correct answer is not going to have an important effect. However, <em>Blindspot <\/em>shows that there are very real consequences to faulty memory, like when a person is a witness for a trial. Mistakes are bound to be made when a person\u2019s memory is the only thing to rely on. It makes me happy that we are living in a world of constant videotaping and surveillance because, if nothing else, at least there is a tape to fact check ourselves with some of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of the term mind bug before, but I\u2019ve been exposed to these types of illusions before. On the first day of my 7th grade woodshop class, my teacher spent the whole period showing us illusions and assigning each one a deeper meaning of why we got it wrong in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}